Quotes About Manipulation

Cicero was nothing if not a genius at character assassination.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.

Judith set up Colin with his chambers and she got him into the States. It's her house they live in and her wealth that keeps their three children in private school. And God help him if he steps out of line. She's the one who wears the trousers in that relationship.

What?' I couldn't believe what he had just said. 'She's faking being blind?' It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever heard.

At the moment, there's just the four of us who know that your wife is a cold-hearted, manipulative bitch. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it that way. What do you think?

The question sounded innocent but arrived like the twist of a knife.

And before you interrupt me, Colin, you're probably one of them. He had you twisted round his little finger.

The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.

I didn't like him. He had a way of manipulating people which I thought was a little creepy and then there was that business in Deal.

Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

You used me to get back at Grunshaw.' 'I thought you'd be pleased, mate. She's going to have egg all over her face. The Assistant Commissioner isn't going to be pleased.

Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.